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THE TREATISES

SATURDAY, JULY 4

Acts 1:1-2
Luke 19:10
 
 
“For the Son of man is come
to seek and to save
that which was lost.”
 
THE TREATISES
 
The church father Eusebius said that Luke has left us two inspired volumes in the New Testament: the Gospel and the Acts. Luke was the Apostle Paul’s companion in the missionary journeys recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. There can be no reasonable doubt that the Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts are two volumes of the same work. They were designed to fulfill the same general purpose of confirming personal faith and to provide an understandable historical record of God’s revelation to men in the work of Christ. This account gives the reader further confidence in the truthfulness of the promises of Christ in the gospel. This grants them assurance of the reliability of the faith they have in the Jesus of Nazareth.
 
The former treatise: Luke described the life of Jesus in his gospel. This treatise presents the perfect humanity of Christ, whom Luke presented as the Son of man, the God-man whose genealogy he traced back to Adam. The phrase “the Son of man” is used frequently in Luke. The key verse is in Luke 19:10. It is in many ways a gospel to a humanity that needs compassion and sympathy: the brokenhearted, the poor, the sick, the persecuted, and the bereaved.
 
The second treatise: This account is considered as the second installment to the gospel that Luke wrote. Why the need to append another record? This second treatise describes the story of the beginning of the church of Jesus Christ. It is an account of God’s fulfillment of His salvific plan in Christ Jesus to the whole world: “…both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8). It is right that the good news is followed by good acts. As genuine faith produces good works so the account of Christ’s life must be followed by the account of the Christian’s life.
 
Is your life today a continuation of your born-again experience in Christ? Is there continuity in the work of God in your life? You need to examine yourself (2 Cor 13:5).
 
THOUGHT: Am I a living Christian?

PRAYER: Father, help me examine myself, whether I am in the faith.

 

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